Jazz Tigan, co-creator of the Hugalopes [http://www.hugalopes.com/], came by our office for lunch yesterday to update me on his progress.  Kevin Coleman also stopped by and recorded Jazz for MixTent [http://www.mixtent.com/]'s Storybin.  The last time I saw Jazz and his co-founder Cris

Tody I moderated a discussion today with Socialize [http://www.getsocialize.com/] executive team members Jason Polites, Isaac Mosquera and Sean Shadmand about how Socialize has created an infrastructure that supports over 7 million API requests per day, 2.5 million social actions (now creating over 1 million new actions

I'm a power user of multiple 37 Signals [http://www.37signals.com/] products, including the Basecamp [http://go.danielodio.com/basecamp] project management system (much less so since Socialize [http://www.getsocialize.com/] moved to agile scrum methodologies [http://go.danielodio.com/scrum] company-wide)  and its Customer Relationship

Big props to the Vator [http://vator.tv/] team for putting on a great, intimate Gamification conference in Berkeley today.  I captured some of the content, with my (chicken-scratch) notes below each video. Michael Wu, Chief Scientist, Lithium Techologies: Michael's keynote was fantastic.  He crammed a 2 hour

There's long been a raging debate going over HTML vs. Native Apps. Just Googling the debate returns over 3.7 million results [https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=html+vs.+apps#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&q=html+vs.+native+apps&

I recently moderated a panel on mobile marketing [http://www.danielodio.com/2012/04/21/i-moderate-mobile-marketing-beyond-the-hype-panel-at-mid-atlantic-marketing-summit/] at the Mid Atlantic Marketing Summit, then rushed over to MoDevUX just up the street to do a presentation on Designing for Social Apps [http://www.danielodio.com/2012/04/21/designing-for-social-apps-my-presentation-at-modevux/] .  Props to

I moderated a panel at this year's Mid Atlantic Marketing Summit at the Gannett headquarters in McLean, VA titled "Mobile Marketing: Beyond The Hype." The panel discussed what's working well in mobile marketing, what's not working well, and what some of the

I spoke this week at the fantastic MoDevUX conference about how Socialize has designed an API & SDK for app developers. The Socialize SDK has seen rapid uptake from developers, as detailed in this post [http://go.danielodio.com/sdk-adoption]. Here's my presentation:

Last July I visited a new startup hacker space called "StartupHouse" and I wrote a post up about it [http://www.danielodio.com/2011/07/15/hot-new-hacker-coworking-space-in-downtown-sf-hacker-hostel/] because I thought it looked really promising. My, how things can happen in the span of 9 months. It's

I'm writing this post while on a flight -- here's my view (pic made with Cinemagram) Part of being a lifehacker means being an efficiency nut on the computer -- I've previously written about playing a computer like an instrument [http://go.danielodio.com/

I received an email from the CEO of another SDK-based technology company asking how we've been so successful getting developers to adopt the Socialize [http://www.getsocialize.com/] SDK. I like to have conversations like these in public so that other entrepreneurs in the same position can benefit

Facebook announced this week [https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/facebook-acquires-photo-sharing-service-instagram/] that was acquiring Instagram [http://www.instagram.com/], a hipster photo editing and sharing app, for $1 billion. Kevin Systrom, one of the founders of Instagram, credited Instagram's early success and fast growth to "

I just sat down with Arte Merritt [https://www.linkedin.com/pub/arte-merritt/2/231/b00], who recently started a great new job at Turner Broadcasting (owner of many channels you know like CNN, TNT, TBS, CartoonNetwork, etc).  Arte's job is to help Turner get closer to innovative

I was recently approached by a friend in the venture capital industry who asked me to write about my experience as an entrepreneur and transplant to Silicon Valley.  Here's the resulting transcript of our discussion.  I'm publishing it in the hopes that it helps other entrepreneurs,

Thanks to @SpacemonkeyMike [https://twitter.com/#!/SpacemonkeyMike] for tipping me off to the recent Startupism [http://www.startupism.org/] conference in San Francisco, a two day conference that brought together more than 400 entrepreneurs and speakers like Phil McKinney, the ex CTO of Hewlett Packard, Chris Redlitz, a fantastic investor

I recently watched a 60 Minutes episode about "The 99ers" [https://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6987699n] -- those who have been unemployed for 99 weeks or more. If you're a 99er, this blog post is aimed squarely at you.  I'm going to

AngelList is a platform that connects entrepreneurs to angel investors to raise seed stage capital. Out of the $1.5 million dollars in angel funding we've raised for Socialize, over $1 million came from introductions made on AngelList.  We were very early AngelList users under our AppMakr brand,

I got to catch up with some friends this week while I was in Toronto for a mobile panel [http://go.danielodio.com/fantastic-tablet-panel], and we started talking about the topic of personal branding.  One of my friends is a real estate agent, and the other is an aspiring actor

I recently did a panel at Canadian Music Week on Tablets & Media [http://go.danielodio.com/fantastic-tablet-panel], and during the event, a member of the audience tweeted this [https://twitter.com/#!/lcapone77/status/182899018484027392]. I love taking cool & unique pics with my iPhone like my killer panos [http:

As posted on the Socialize blog [http://blog.getsocialize.com/2012/fantastic-tablet-and-media-panel-at-canadian-music-week] : Socialize CEO Daniel Odio participated on a fantastic panel at Canadian Music Week [http://www.cmw.net/] titled "Media on Tablets & Mobile Devices [http://www.cmw.net/panel-details/?panel_id=134&cat=2]," moderated

This weekend, Telsa held an exclusive Model X [http://www.teslamotors.com/modelx] preview for reservation holders. As the CEO of a mobile startup [http://www.getsocialize.com/], I have mad respect for Elon Musk [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk], the founder of Tesla. Here's a

Based on the recommendation of one of our engineers (thanks Nick!) I'm trying out this Seagate hybrid Solid State + 7200 RPM drive ($175 at Amazon: Seagate Momentus XT 750 GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 32 MB Cache 2.5 Inch Solid State Hybrid Drive ST750LX003 [https://www.amazon.

A colleague of mine had to pay me via check, but he was 2,000 miles away. What to do? My bank, USAA [http://www.usaa.com/], doesn't have any physical branches, so he couldn't just walk in and deposit the check in my account. He